How old are you and at what age did you take an interest in politics?

[bhikkhu]

46. I'm 51, and was 7 or so , watching the watergate/nixon debacle

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I recall my grandpa's anger when I called nixon a bum - he asked me where I learned to talk like that and I responded that it was from him. Funny in retrospect, on the one hand he was prone to calling politicians bums, but on the other hand I didn't know anything but what I saw on the 6 o'clock news we watched during dinner, and didn't really have any business being outspoken.

Ford was kind of an uninteresting shambles, but I was a big Carter fan. I recall watching the "sacrifice" speech and it making perfect sense, the first time I heard a president speak truthfully. Watching his defeat to Reagan was the prelude to a long period of disillusionment with the ability of people in general to make good decisions based on higher principles and realities, rather than their "gut".